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Banchory railway station on the Deeside Railway, Scotland, in 1961.The station closed in 1966. After growing rapidly in the 19th century during the Railway Mania, the British railway system reached its height in the years immediately before the First World War, with a network of 23,440 miles (37,720 km). [2]
Media in category "Railway maps of the United Kingdom" The following 10 files are in this category, out of 10 total. Extract of 1889 Railway Map Showing Grosvenor Road station.png 315 × 396; 367 KB
Walking Britain's Lost Railways is a British documentary television series presented by Rob Bell that first aired on Channel 5 on 21 September 2018. A second series premiered on Channel 5 on 9 February 2020. [1]
The Beeching cuts were a reduction in the size of the British railway network, along with a restructuring of British Rail, in the 1960s. Since the mid-1990s there has been significant growth in passenger numbers on the railways and renewed government interest in the role of rail in UK transport.
British Railway History. An outline from the accession of William IV to the Nationalisation of Railways, 1830–1876 (vol 1. G. Allen and Unwin, 1954) Ellis, Cuthbert Hamilton. British Railway History: An Outline from the Accession of William IV to the Nationalization of Railways, 1877–1947. Vol. 2 (G. Allen and Unwin, 1959); see online review.
In her book British Rail: The Nation's Railway, Tanya Jackson argues that the Modernisation Plan laid the foundations of the highly successful Inter-City operation as well as planting the seeds of modern industrial design in the railway organisation. This was to lead to British Rail producing its benchmark Corporate Identity Manual in the sixties.
[2] Following the format of Great British Railway Journeys and related series with Portillo as presenter, each episode of this series features a coastal railway journey through England, Scotland, Wales or Ireland. Series 1 was first broadcast on BBC Two in January–February 2022, series 2 in May–June 2023, and series 3 in April–May 2024. [3]
British Rail: 2008 Aberdare High Level: GWR: 1964 reopened 1988 Aberdare Low Level: TVR: 1964 Aberdeen Ferryhill: Aberdeen Railway: 1864 Aberdeen Guild Street: Aberdeen Railway: 1867 (Aberdeen) Holburn Street: Deeside Railway 1937 (Aberdeen) Hutcheon Street: Denburn Valley Line 1937 Aberdeen Kittybrewster (3 stations of this name, on 2 lines ...